General Question

Is it true that sheep is the dumbest creature from all?

I have seen some movie and books and they said that sheep is the dumbest creature from all creature,or at least from all warm-blooded creature. They will not scream for help while they’re attacked,they won’t try to attack their predators,they will remain silent and will not fight while they’re eaten alive by predators,etc. Unlike sheep,goats,as their close cousin will do the opposite behaviors.

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“Dumbest mammal” certainly fits with what I’ve heard. It is something of a joke among some Christians that we (that is, people in general) are likened to sheep in Scripture for precisely these reasons, which is why a shepherd is so very, very important.

Sheep may be like that, but their wild ancestors weren’t. As people domesticated them, they selected for breeding the ones most suited to being kept by humans – some because they were meaty and tasty, some because they had very soft wool, but they were also bred to be docile. If sheep are pretty dumb, we have only ourselves to thank.

This often happens when something is domesticated – it takes a lot of the wildness right out. (Look what it did for us – now we voluntarily sit in cubicles all day and most of us are even nice about yielding in traffic, not killing the neighbor’s noisy baby, and eating what is supplied to us by the farmers.)

I surmise that the dumbest creatures are basically protozoa because they only have one cell, and since most brains are multicellular, they basically don’t have brains, except for whatever gives them the ability to sense light and other basic phenomena.